Article: The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn.(Tyson Foods Inc.)(Brief article)

The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. Under the new contract the plant's workers were to get eight paid holidays, as before; but Labor Day was no longer to be one of the eight. It was replaced by the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr. This was another "accommodation" to the plant's Muslims, who constitute a large part of its workforce. The firm had already built a ...

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